The Life and Times of Peter Green
updated 19 March 2025
 HESSIE …. March 26th 2025 |
March 3rdFROCK ENZ via the Pacific Sisters and ASIATOPIA at the Vic Arts centre. Noel Crombie mentioned this to me. So if you are an ENZ fan and live in Melbourne check this out. Noel locked in a date and time today to be interviewed for the HESSIE documentary so thats very cool and rather exciting. Just nice to catch up with this amazing talented friend.In the morning I make my Monday run to Bourkes Lookout with bag in hand, I hike, my favourite mini hike and pick up any stray rubbish along the walk track. I love that when people come to the look out, it is brilliant-the glorious aussie bush with no litter. Can you believe it is 47 years since Skyhooks released "Women In Uniform" a top ten hit in Australia (#7) it even entered the UIK charts and Iron maiden covered the song. Skyhooks suddenly got a lot tougher. We liked that. March 4thThe amazing Noel Crombie is back from his surfing safari down the coast so I give him a call and we lock in the day and time for his interview for the HESSIE mini doco. Always great to speak to Cromb, one of my favourite humans.A really great article on the ABC news page on the Bassian Plain-a large land bridge connecting Tasmania to mainland Australia. It was huge, teeming with life and humans, 41,000 years ago. I need to watch Lucinda Hardtacks documentary "The Land Bridge" which was released in 2024. It probably explains why so many Tasmanian Tiger bones have been discovered on mainland Australia over the years? Bongo gives me a call and it's really positive, we talk for an hour. Some very good test results, his Leukemia looks like it is in remission, so lets hope his health keeps on improving. A good chance he can go home in a weeks time if he is improving. March 5thHappy 87th Birthday to my Mum. She finally opens up all the birthday cards that I sent her. I'm singing to her on the phone and my florist delivers the flowers just at that moment so good timing. The entire bakery sing to her down the phone, the workers and the customers. It made her day.I do some solid work at the Free Food Program, somehow I always seem to be carrying stuff to peoples cars. Marks Youtube Wednesday. It's Skyhooks today, some rarely played live audio, which I wont put up here as it instantly does well. I'll give the Finn Brothers with the wonderful NIWHAI a bit of a push. It's from Melbourne and from 1996. Five satellites in just one night…love that line. The sound is really really good and you can enjoy it here, thank you Mark. March 6thYoutube has gone bit freaky and our main counter has suddenly stopped as far as views. I'm sure it will do some sort of catch up, I keep assuring Mark. Sometimes Youtube has a mind of its own. A few days later it works again. We have had 5,280,282 views. God that is a lot of people! We love it that all of these clips are being enjoyed by so many people .We are loving "Australia : An Unofficial History" on SBS streaming. The footage is wonderful, the people being interviewed, just great. I'm stoked that Benjamin Law is on the show. He's an Australian writer and broadcaster. I think he is still with his boyfriend Scott Spark, like us they met at school. They've been together for about 20 years nowhere near as long as us but 20 is incredible. It's true I do find Benjamin rather cute as well , not as hot as my boyfriend but hey, my diary has always been a rather honest place. Benjamin has this natural innocent charm...and then he gets twinkle in his eye and I go "not so innocent". He's on my very short list "to meet" list. Well he is short but it's not a short person list, now I am making it all confusing. Anyway back to it- great show. March 7thMy neck is getting twisted for turning sideways while I am driving, casting an eye over the hundreds of hard rubbish piles. I am desperate to find a seventies portable tv set so I can gut it and make into an art piece for the Book Cave at charity. We have this large table area now which I've covered in TV show dvds. I find that boring so the artified glitter tv will be a centre piece to break up the boring display. But no luck. Endless flatscreens zero old style tube sets.I arrive at the Olinda bakery and ask the girls to keep an eye open. Glen ("Choco") is standing near the counter & he turns and says "hey I might be able to help you, have an old portable under the house & it's been their for decades". Twenty minutes later he drops it in while I sip my coffee, it's grotty, covered in bat shit and dust and absolutely perfect, he can tell how happy I am. I head home , tell Mark no calls I'm in the art room for 3 days. Music is on.. Joan Jett second album, and the big clean first. Next I undo all those screw, cut wires and strip the guts out of the tv. More cleaning. I sit and put Derwent to hand and do some drawings around ideas. Originally I was putting the Ken & Barbie Star Trek dolls in and the Enterprise bridge. But they are too tall and I didn't want to chop their legs off. So plan #2- paper mache moonscape and a Lost In Space set. Some silver reject curtain material from a Crowdies stage backing and the left over black. Yep that will work. I have lunch and check on my disaster reports for QLD. On the phone and get some disaster items dropped into the emergency hubs. 250,000 already without power in QLD as cyclone Alfred arrives. Next part-the glitter and it goes everywhere. I rush off and but more Tarzans grip. I need that for the Jupiter 2, Robot and Space Pod to be attached to my moon. I do 3 layers of glitter….and leave all of this to dry. I have shower and find glitter on body parts that would normally not have glitter on them. ! Ol' Glitter Dick Green they will call me. LOL March 8thDuttons Nuclear brain fart will cost $331 BILLION. Now remember this is the party that said Snowy 2.0 will take 2.5 years and cost $2.8 Billion. Liberals Snowy 2.0 is now 5 years LATE and Ten BILLION over budget and rising. More like 500+ Billion eh Spud boy? I don't trust anything you say.I'm sitting next to my friend Pauline, sipping our coffees and talking about the local Koala population. When the weather is cooler I might go out and try and photograph them again. The West Australian election is on. The Liberals are slaughtered. Labor have a massive win and The Greens one of their best results. Wonderful to see. It all seemed to be over rather quickly. March 9thToday is bit of a missing day, not much in my real diary. I think I just went from job to job, ticking them off my "To Do" list. I send Neil (Finn) a quick email, it's been a few weeks. I need to track down Nick Seymours email address again soon as it's stuck in the broken computer along with many others.March 10thPublic Holiday here. Labour Day.Lots of tourists up here on Mt Dandenong, it's a stunner of a day. People seem very happy. Lots of picnics and gatherings down at the oval. Newspoll arrives and Dutton falls further behind as "Preferred PM". Good! I cook a really nice dinner for us and we settle in on our couches watching Murder documentaries. March 11thOff to get some blood tests, just my regular check every few years. I need to go with Mark for some more detail tests down the track, good to get them done. I was lacking in Vitamin D last time which is nothing. Everything else checks out to be ok.Back by 12.00 to film the Noel interview and he was on time -did I expect anything else from God? Great to see Mr Crombie and as always we chat and the day evaporates. Mark does his thing, everything is set up and we film some bits and pieces for the HESSIE doco. It's a fun afternoon and another mini chat in the can for HESSIE. I buy us all some salad rolls and Noel is impressed that the shoot has catering. LOL. March 12thTomorrow it is one year since our Split Enz MURDER video clip was released. We were hoping for 12 months and 12,000 views by tomorrow. Well the clip did it today, by midday it passed the 12,000 mark. So thank you everyone and one day early. The Frenz spoil us with their support.More box filling with fruit and veggies at the Philanthropic Collective today, we seem to have more mouths to feed and somehow we do it. We save all of this from being wasted. It feels so positive and my co workers are great. I zoom home and we put up today's Wednesday Video. It's another live Crowded House clip with wonderful sound. "When You Come." That a great version, you must check this one out. The Hammersmith Odeon in London. October 1991. Once the video is up I have bite for lunch and decide to head to the charity for a few hours and lend them a hand and of course put up the "Soho Punk-Love from Chocko" glam TV set. Everyone loves it, two different people try to buy it. It seems to be appreciated this little TV art piece. Back home and have a Nana nap I am wearing myself out. I wake up and cook some dinner and we chill out on the couch. It seemed like a very long day. March 13thA quick run to the bakery to buy some salad rolls and a coffee. Kevin G from Hessies LLT arrives in an hours time with musician Andrew McSweeney to be filmed for the HESSIE documentary. Need to get home and help Mark with set up.Great to see these guys, Kevins really giving so many stories and details, which will be hell for Markys editing skills. Plus so much of it is great , you always worry you might chop too much. A bit like pruning a tree. Andrews short replies and focused and we call "It's a wrap" last interviews out of the way. OK I do email Nick Seymour to see if he wants to add something , so balls in his court. Kevin hands over some cool stuff for scanning and possible use including some original hand written Paul lyrics. We walk them to the gate and Mark and myself collapse into each others arms, it's been a long few weeks. It feels good though, maybe HESSIE is this years major project. Apart from it being a year since MURDER was released, it's also FIFTY years since Split Enz first arrived in Sydney from N.Z. Jeff Jenkins writes an article and wants a piece from me for it, so because it's Jeff I oblige. I wonder what would have happened to the Enz if they stayed in NZ. They might of broken up? Dinner- lots of veggies, Vegetable Makhani. A tomato and cashew nut sauce. I bake a homemade Apple Pie and I mix up some healthy drinks. March 14thSee Jed and chat to him about music and his future. OK maybe I lectured bit, some tough love. It's not easy when you are starting out. But you have to want music in your life like a fire in the belly, till you ache.A nice call from Bongo Skyhook , he's now home which is fantastic, mostly good news around his Leukemia. March 15thOur Youtube channel counter starts again. Who knows why these things stop. 5,280,282 views. Great so many are loving our videos.I work on a Press Release for HESSIE, not quite happy with it, it needs fine turning. I do some yard work to sidetrack myself from the office. Mark works away on his lonesome for 6 hrs straight. He knows his stuff. At 3.50 the alarms at the oval go off and we get a fire alert. Montrose the next town down. A fire in the reserve and between the high temperatures and the wind this is a worry. Several hours later they don't seem to be able to stop it. Helicopters are water bombing and extra fire engines called in. We keep checking and get into evac mode. Not much sleep tonight. At midnight a message arrives as to where the Relief Centre is located so I offer up some help. March 16thNot much sleep, quite a few houses at Montrose evacuated because of smoke as well as fire. At least one house burnt down maybe two. Drop in some of Kates disaster packs. I get home as quick as I can, hoping for some rain and all of a sudden the heavens open up. It's early and the phone rings and it's my ex Boss Carol. She is in hospital but sees the fires on the News and just checking on me which is nice. Quite a few messages from concerned friends.At midday we put up the first teaser from HESSIE. We call it The Drum Teaser as it's basically Paul going wild on the drums. Noise 11 music page runs a piece on it. This Wednesday 19th a second trailer will go up- which is an unreleased Paul song with photos and his hand written lyrics drifting over it. March 26th the HESSIE documentary is up. Quite a few calls for a cinema release, we shall see. It's suddenly getting very BIG. Not sure that we want that. You can enjoy the first teaser here. At 4.00 the rain picks up, take that Fire, never mess with a weather witch. (Weather bitch?). Suddenly we are much calmer knowing we won't be baked in our sleep. All the best to you all and thanks for supporting HESSIE. 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